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The art of the “Nabis” Bonnard and Vuillard enjoyed great popularity in Switzerland at an early stage; accordingly their work is well represented all the way from Bonnard’s audacious and radically two-dimensional decorative Japanese panels Four Women in the Garden from 1890 through Vuillard’s main work Great Interior with Six Figures of 1897 to the more serene later works. In the surprising composition with the sailing boat the bold division of planes still imposes itself, but above all it is possible to see the development of the more colourful and painterly qualities of his mature years.